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The American Mock Trial Association will use a disputed election case to crown its national championship next month in Cincinnati. It’s a great opportunity to put elections in front of the sharp and highly-motivated students who compete in college mock trial.

Ursula Kaczmarek of the US and Overseas Vote Foundation has produced a beautiful visualization of the data from Charles Stewart’s Survey of the Performance of American Elections. It’s worth a look – and a bookmark so you can look again and again.

U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock’s resignation sets up yet another special election – a growing phenomenon across the nation that is straining election offices’ ability to fund an expanding election calendar on static or shrinking budgets.

Oregon’s new automatic voter registration law is now in effect – but what’s next? Three areas are likely to drive that story – implementation, turnout effects and yes, fraud concerns.

The new issue of the Election Law Journal features PCEA-themed content aimed at – and informed by – the work of practitioners in the field.

The EAC’s Matt Masterson has a new blog post regarding the challenges states and localities face in “training the funders” to address voting technology challenges. It’s both substantively important and a promising sign of greater engagement from the new EAC.

A new Political Analysis piece examines Google search data on “voter registration” in 2012 and concludes based on that data that Election Day registration could have added 3-4 million new voters in that year’s general election.

Brian Newby has a new post at ElectionDiary that takes a student’s simple question about online voting and uses it to muse about how well the elections field does (and doesn’t) move at what he calls the “speed of life”.

Massachusetts’ longtime Secretary of State and new Governor are squaring off in a budget battle driven by partisanship and different approaches – a scene that will almost certainly be repeated this year in many other capitols nationwide.

Last week’s letter by a group of House Democrats to the GAO asks the agency to examine the impact of aging voting machines but also to look at the potential effect of registration reforms on turnout and participation overall.